The United States is most economically prosperous when politicians and policy elites fully embrace free market capitalism, which includes free trade on a level playing field. Make America Great Again, MAGA, remains the trademark slogan of former President Donald Trump as he campaigns to be elected President. But some of the economic policies proposed by […]
Sometimes we miss the important thing because we are looking for something else. That’s certainly the case with an important Supreme Court action taken earlier this week. The justices responded to litigation related to Idaho’s law, passed in 2023, known as the “Vulnerable Child Protection Act.” This statute regulated medical actions taken on children to […]
In the late 1980s, Jesse Jackson famously led a bunch of Stanford students in a march, shouting, “Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go!” Universities broadly complied, hollowing out core course requirements in Western Civilization. The result has been an understandable lament on the Right that our universities have no moral core […]
The NCAA women’s basketball championship game on April 7 between Iowa and South Carolina had a massive audience. This was due in no small part to Caitlin Clark, a uniquely talented player for the Hawkeyes. Clark has been a star for a while but national interest in her took off this year. According to reports, the game […]
The first moments of an interview with a major political figure are always surreal. The familiarity of the subject’s voice cuts against the novelty of engaging with someone for the first time. It is disorienting, to say the least. This was the case when I spoke with the late Sen. Joseph Lieberman in early March. […]
Iran’s decision to launch hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel last weekend offers a painful lesson for President Joe Biden. His policy of hoping to induce better behavior from the Islamic Republic through multibillion-dollar payoffs has been revealed as naive fiction. In fairness to Biden, this fatally misguided assumption that the mullahs want to be […]
President Joe Biden‘s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is proposing a new rule that indulges three of its most ignoble habits in a single move. The rule would not merely allow but promote abortion, it would violate the religious liberty of employers, and it would make a mockery of congressional intent and of a law’s plain meaning. The rule pertains to […]
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) on Thursday blamed Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and “seven useful idiots” for turmoil in the House, saying their success in ousting former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) last fall is a direct cause of today's problems for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). Lawler criticized members of his own party for weakening Johnson’s negotiation...
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said late Thursday that he thinks alternate jurors will be needed to reach a verdict in former President Trump’s hush money trial, because others may "get freaked out” and want to be dismissed. “Jurors get sick, jurors get freaked out. Some of them could be spooked by a social...